A group of U.S. researchers has modelled where society’s current path — an unmitigated spread of COVID — would lead. They concluded that unfettered transmission could result in death tolls exceeding 100,000 a year in the U.S. alone. “Endemicity is not a victory,” they added.
:doomer:
If it got to MERS level dangerous despite vaccines... maybe? Then again, it would probably cause us to double down on the eugenics. "Why lock down? everyone has immunity now and it's only killed the old and sick... I assume"
"It's only killing the weakest 30-40% of the population! I and my fellow Neo-Aryans will rule the ashes!" - Neera Tanden, probably.